Re: Software Raid 1 for system disks on storage nodes (not for OSD disks)

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Hello!

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 07:03:35AM +0200, martin wrote:

> Thanks all for the suggestions.

> Our storage nodes have plenty of RAM and their only purpose is to host the
> OSD daemons, so we will not create a swap partition on provisioning.

As an option, You can use swap file on demand. It is easy to deploy.

> For the OS disk we will then use a software raid 1 to handle eventually
> disk failures. For provisioning the hosts we use kickstart and then Ansible
> to install an prepare the hosts to be ready to for ceph-deploy.

I don't think raid1 is suitable for ceph as of ability to have distributed over
hosts copies of data. Think as this is a raid1 over hosts that is more reliable.
Even a server crush will not destroy Your data. If Your setup is quite correct
:)

-- 
WBR, Max A. Krasilnikov
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